Lionel Lukin (judge)

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Justice Lionel Oscar Lukin was appointed the first Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, Australia on 25 January 1934 and remained the sole Judge of the Court until November 1943 when he retired due to ill health. Justice Lukin was also a Judge of the Federal Court of Bankruptcy at the time and therefore did not sit full time on the Territory Supreme Court.

Lionel Oscar Lukin was Central Judge in Queensland from 1910 to 1922. He preferred to reside in Brisbane and travelled to Rockhampton by train to discharge his duties. This allowed him to be a member of every Full Court.

In 1929 Lukin was sitting as a judge on the Conciliation and Arbitration Court, where he handed down a new award for timber workers reducing wages and increasing weekly hours from 44 to 48. This precipitated the 1929 timber strike which lasted for 5 months.